<div dir="ltr">So true Allan, I like what Chretien said too, "It's never enough when it comes to the military." <div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 7:35 PM Allan Baker via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Greg;<div><br></div><div>The concluding sentence makes so much common sense:</div><div>“ <span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If the government was truly concerned about security, it would spend the money on public/co-op housing, cleaning up ecological devastation and preparing for the next pandemic.</span><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span>”</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Buying fighter jets for “protection” is like France constructing the Maginot Line pre WWII. The Generals are always preparing for the previous war.</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Stay hopeful;</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Allan</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 7, 2022, at 6:00 PM, Mr. Gillis via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">People may find this article by Yves Engler interesting, demonstrating how Canada's air force has been used in American imperial wars and has been responsible for large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries. This includes that fact that Canadian and American war planes in Iraq also bombed much civilian infrastructure such as water filtration and sanitation plants condemning many innocent civilians to death by disease from contaminated water. All of this is ignored by Canada's major media outlets who refuse to challenge our participation in the military industrial complex at a time when we are facing the existential threats of militari$m, climate emergency, pandemic and a whole host of problems that fighter jets in fact will not protect us against. However, the same thinking that lead to World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan still prevails among our world's leaders including right here in Canada.<div><br></div><div>Peace</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Yves Engler</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com" target="_blank">donotreply@wordpress.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 4:30 PM<br>Subject: [New post] Fighter jets useless against real security threats<br>To: <<a href="mailto:greg.j.gillis@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.j.gillis@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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“It’s never enough” said former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien about military spending. “They always want more.”
Canada shouldn’t spend huge sums on 88 new fighter jets incapable of protecting the population against pressing secur" </span>
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